libertarian activists

updated Sun. May 6, 2018

Eric July is a libertarian rapper and activist based in Dallas. Front man of the rap metal band BackWordz, July says he became a libertarian after seeing how big government hurt the black community. His political views have sparked opposition and vitriol from liberal African-Americans. July came into theÃÂ ...

Libertarian students, meanwhile, have regrouped as a chapter of Young Americans for Liberty (YAL), a national Libertarian political activism organization that was established ... At the national level, the CRNC is a 527 Political Action Committee and self-described activist group, led by an elected chairman.

Even as potential Democratic primary challengers to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser shy away from the spotlight, an openly gay Libertarian Party candidate is determined to ensure that this year's election isn't a coronation. Martin Moulton, a longtime community activist in the Shaw neighborhood who has run inÃÂ ...

The Libertarian Party of Kings County officially endorses Gail Lightfoot for California Secretary of State. Lightfoot has been a member of the Libertarian Party since 1972, being a Charter Member. She has been dedicated to Libertarian activism since that date, having run numerous political campaigns as aÃÂ ...

Drew Gray Miller, a Libertarian candidate in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District, faces accusations that he “spoiled” Republican Rick Saccone's ... Ironically, up until Election Day, most of the emails Miller got from district political activists came from Democrats who were adamant that he would scuttleÃÂ ...

Gay Libertarian Party activist Martin Moulton has filed papers with the D.C. Board of Elections to run for both the office of mayor and the office of chairman of the D.C. ... In 2016 Moulton ran as the Libertarian Party nominee for the D.C. congressional delegate seat held by Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton.

Student politics reached a new low this month, when Yaron Brook, an American-Israeli writer, and Carl Benjamin, a popular political YouTuber, were prevented from speaking to the Libertarian Society at King's College London by a group of activists who claimed Brook and Benjamin were 'fascists' andÃÂ ...

A former solicitor for the U.S. Interior Department sought to set the record straight on public lands Wednesday, disputing Western activists' views that .... He quoted libertarian activists who oppose federal management of the areas, saying they are “political lands,” a characterization with which Leshy agreed.

Jeffrey Blunt has been a political activist for Libertarianism since 1998. Since then, he has run nine campaigns and is a firm believer that it is time to be blunt with the American public and it is the time for a major third party to enter the national conversation. Keller: Being a congressman in no easy task.

Watson set to return; Teague shares ballot with Libertarian .... Within his own Republican Party, incumbent Governor Asa Hutchinson faces a May 22 Primary challenge from gun activist Jan Morgan. In the Democratic Party, a field of two contenders emerged, Leticia Sanders and Jared K. Henderson;ÃÂ ...

The impressive tally of Libertarian candidates across the state this year speaks to the growth of the party, even resulting in the rare phenomenon of a contested Libertarian Party primary in the state's 4th Congressional District. That growth has inspired Sylva Libertarian Clifton Ingram to join three DemocratsÃÂ ...

A libertarian activist delivered jars of tar and feathers to some senators after the chamber voted for the legislation earlier this week. In the House, racial divisions emerged between Democrats when some African-Americans fumed that white lawmakers were going the extra mile to react to the ParklandÃÂ ...

Within his own Republican Party, incumbent Governor Asa Hutchinson faces a May 22 Primary challenge from gun activist Jan Morgan. In the Democratic Party, a field of two contenders emerged, Leticia Sanders and Jared K. Henderson; Sanders and Henderson will also face off in the May 22 Primary forÃÂ ...

The impressive tally of Libertarian candidates across the state this year speaks to the growth of the party, even resulting in the rare phenomenon of a contested Libertarian Party primary in the state's 4th Congressional District. That growth has inspired Sylva Libertarian Clifton Ingram to join three DemocratsÃÂ ...

The Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania held its annual convention this past weekend in Shippensburg where politicians, candidates and activists emphasized individual liberty and reducing the role of government. On Saturday, the convention, held at the Quality Inn & Suites Shippen Place Hotel, featuredÃÂ ...

Offstage lurked Concerned Veterans for America, part of the constellation of political groups funded by the billionaire libertarian-leaning activists Charles G. Koch and David H. Koch, in this case to push the department away from government-run veterans' care and toward private care subsidized by theÃÂ ...

This is the latest in a series of campus events to descend into violence, with campaigners using aggressive tactics to shut down talks and intimidate audience members. Masked activists dressed in black broke into a room on Monday evening where King's College Libertarian Society was hosting an panelÃÂ ...

What conservative or libertarian organization is perfect? I can't think of any ... With this in mind, how should conservative activists approach organizations? ... Earlier in February, a top performing Turning Point USA activist from Kent State University published her letter of resignation from her chapter. She didÃÂ ...

The convention on Saturday, March 3, will feature speakers and workshops as attendees have the opportunity to interact with libertarian activists from around the state. Registration will begin at 11 a.m. with the festivities beginning at noon. The hotel is located at 32 E. King St., Shippensburg.

SHIPPENSBURG — The Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania (LPPA) will hold its annual convention weekend at the Shippen Place Hotel Saturday and Sunday, March 3 and 4.The event on Saturday will feature speakers and workshops as attendees have the opportunity to interact with libertarian activistsÃÂ ...

At one event in San Diego where Democrats and progressive activist were discussing the ballot initiative, tech lobbyists came by to distribute hundreds of flyers that aggressively warned that the new initiative would “jeopardize jobs and innovation.” Under the headline “Keep California America's tech leaderÃÂ ...

Life Site News said the entire CPAC event has been “hijacked by LGBT activists,” while World News Daily said the incident shows “homosexual bullies” are ... “Similar to the direction of the GOP establishment, in recent years CPAC has become more libertarian-oriented and pro-LGBT — and hardly anyÃÂ ...

Each of these three founders was more complex than any traditional label (like “libertarian” or “Republican” or “Democrat”), and each had a political vision ... Nevertheless, Barlow's death has led some commentators to characterize Barlow, EFF, and cyberspace activists in general in reductive terms that areÃÂ ...

Meanwhile, West, who manages the Mechanical Construction Services office in Newark, said, "I think that we're going to do some historic things as far as Libertarians are concerned in this race. "We have an activist base that has been building election by election, so it looks like we are right at that thresholdÃÂ ...

What conservative or libertarian organization is perfect? I can't think of any ... With this in mind, how should conservative activists approach organizations? ... Earlier in February, a top performing Turning Point USA activist from Kent State University published her letter of resignation from her chapter. She didÃÂ ...

Local conservative-libertarian activist Joey Gibson speaks during a rally in Portland, Oregon, Sunday June 4, 2017. ... At the event Sunday, Gibson described the decision as an outgrowth of his libertarian and conservative activism, saying he had been waiting for others to take up the mantle in the electoralÃÂ ...

It was a heady time for activists, more than a decade before the Stonewall Riots that kicked off modern L G BT activism in 1969. While hundreds of curious New Yorkers might show up to Mattachine events, fear of arrest and other official persecution kept the activist core of the group very small.

They feel an overwhelming obligation and responsibility to capitalize on safe, unobstructed, globally accessible currencies so that they might better serve their people. “It's the responsibility of every Libertarian activist to make as much money as they can as fast as they can so to be of better use to society”ÃÂ ...

While he has never run for a political office, he's a huge, well known libertarian activist. Let's be honest: 2016 was the year of political outsiders, ... Kokesh has also gone the extra mile in his political activism, which further shows his passion for liberty. While Johnson and Petersen were making speeches,ÃÂ ...

Kokesh is and will be the only, candidate to have both of these vital qualities for a libertarian presidential candidate, and he doesn't make the stupid outbursts that Johnson does. For example, populism? Kokesh swims in populism. He's a huge, well known libertarian activist. I personally would go so far asÃÂ ...

SHIPPENSBURG — The Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania (LPPA) will hold its annual convention weekend at the Shippen Place Hotel Saturday and Sunday, March 3 and 4.The event on Saturday will feature speakers and workshops as attendees have the opportunity to interact with libertarian activistsÃÂ ...

That might have been an odd place for a poet and former Grateful Dead lyricist to pen a foundational document of internet activism, but it was also an apt ... Barlow was a self-proclaimed libertarian, but in starting EFF, he showed he understood the utility of needing to work with the government, even if heÃÂ ...

SANTA FE — The Libertarian Party did not enter a candidate for governor of New Mexico as a primary-election deadline passed, complicating efforts to maintain major party status in November elections. Libertarian Party activist and candidate for state Attorney General A. Blair Dunn said Tuesday that theÃÂ ...

Universal basic income (UBI) is now firmly in mainstream political discourse. Political parties, activist groups and now even think tanks such as the right-of-centre Adam Smith Institute are taking the policy seriously. It is an unconditional, regular monetary payment made to every citizen that meets the basicÃÂ ...

Libertarian candidate Adam Kokesh, 35, who lives in Ashfork, Ariz., was stopped by officers for a traffic violation about 12:45 p.m. Tuesday on U.S. 81/287 near U.S. 380, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. For 28 minutes, the Marine, author and gun-rights activist recorded the traffic stop until a canineÃÂ ...

All this was the work of New Zealand artist Simon Denny, who rendered Thiel's techno-libertarian philosophies as a board game in his exhibition, “The ... hero” with anti-aging powers and a PayPal belt buckle battling monsters including the democracy and public activism in a recasting of the role-playingÃÂ ...

A Libertarian presidential candidate and prominent activist was arrested in North Texas earlier this week. Adam Kokesh, who filed paperwork last week to run for president, was arrested Tuesday on U.S. 380 by highway patrol in Wise County, roughly 300 miles north of San Antonio, said Wise County SheriffÃÂ ...

Merced: I've been passionate about the Libertarian message since 2007 when like many my age was “woken up” by the Ron Paul 2008 campaign. I tell the exact details of this story in my youtube video “The Aspirational Libertarian”. Ron Paul got me into broader libertarian activism and education, MichaelÃÂ ...

Gary Johnson out of the party, have roiled the small world of L.P. activists in the past few days. While some Libertarians work to focus on upcoming elections or preparing for the 2018 convention, the party's second-ranking officer instead chose to spend the holiday weekend posting extensively on the topicÃÂ ...

Adam Kokesh, longtime anarcho-libertarian activist who first came to public prominence with Iraq Veterans Against the War in 2007 and was later a big Ron Paul supporter, today filed the paperwork necessary to officially seek the U.S. presidency. He is hoping for the Libertarian Party's presidentialÃÂ ...

I first met Larry Sharpe, a prominent New York Libertarian activist, at a pizza place in Des Moines, when I invited him to speak at Drake University on behalf of Young Americans for Liberty. Larry is charismatic, philosophical, convincing, relatable and so much more as he spoke about the failures of the “DrugÃÂ ...

A conservative student activism group has filed a federal lawsuit against trustees of UMass-Amherst, attacking its policies on rallies and free speech.( The Republican ... YAL was formed as a nonprofit to promote libertarian values, according to its website, including freedom of speech and the constitution.

“[Elephants] have a sense of self, remember the past and plan for the future, engage in complex communication, show empathy, and mourn their dead,” the activist suit said. Bentigna dismissed the case as “wholly frivolous on its face in legal terms.” Zoo co-owner Darlene Commerford was happy with theÃÂ ...

Young people like me have to be serious self-starters when it comes to activism. During the Hurricane Harvey disaster, my local Libertarian Youth Caucus was able to get active in relief, but most of the help came from the LYC higher-ups, and not the party itself. Libertarians across the board were mobilizedÃÂ ...

... this year when members of the conservative student organization, TurningPoint USA, posted video of her peacefully protesting one of their recruiting events. Now, Lawton claims that she has been fired by the university, and with the help of prominent libertarian free speech activists, she's fighting back.

If you can't move, please fund the New Hampshire-based libertarian activism you like with your crypto. You may not be able to move because of family or career or whatever, but if New Hampshire succeeds (and we've already begun) at achieving liberty, it will be a beacon to the world that freedom works.

The film forces us to recognize that rights haven't always been upheld by the state and must be defended. In this regard, Marshall has a lot to offer libertarian audiences. * Justin Tucker is a writer and Libertarian activist living in Chicago, Illinois. He is a Staff Writer for URChicago.com and is the Chair of theÃÂ ...

... the Libertarian Party Mises Caucus (LPMC) has grown into one of the largest and strongest footholds for principled libertarian thought and activism. ... While certain individuals can develop little cults around them, I think what makes Libertarianism unique is the willingness to criticize, without delay,ÃÂ ...

Ebke switched her party allegiance from GOP to L.P. in 2016, and she's up for reelection as a Libertarian in 2018. The Republicans are running Al Riskowski, a man who formerly ran the Nebraska Family Alliance. That's a conservative activist group obsessed with the legalities of gambling, gender identity,ÃÂ ...